Science News Weekly Round Up

By: Ryan Wheaton

As a Production Assistant for SCIENCE, I send out an email to the rest of the team wrapping up big stories in science-related news every Friday. It helps us keep on top of what's going on in the world around us. We hope it helps you all too.

Taking the Long View on the World's Energy Supplies Now a handful of researchers are warning that energy sources we normally think of as innocuous could affect the planet's climate too. If we start to extract immense amounts of power from the wind, for instance, it will have an impact on how warmth and water move around the planet, and thus on temperatures and rainfall. See the whole story.

Can't Find Your Keys? Your Brain's Out of Sync You're running late for work and you can't find your keys. What's really annoying is that in your frantic search, you pick up and move them without realizing. This may be because the brain systems involved in the task are working at different speeds, with the system responsible for perception unable to keep pace. See the whole story.

Global Experts Question Claims About Jellyfish Populations Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations — clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked intake lines for power plants — and recent media reports have created a perception that the world's oceans are experiencing increases in jellyfish due to human activities such as global warming and overharvesting of fish. See the whole story.

Stellar Nursery: A Pocket of Star Formation A new view shows a stellar nursery called NGC 3324. It was taken using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The intense ultraviolet radiation from several of NGC 3324's hot young stars causes the gas cloud to glow with rich colours and has carved out a cavity in the surrounding gas and dust. See the whole story.

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